“Marine A” Alexander Blackman Could be Free Within Weeks
Caged Royal Marine Sgt Alexander Blackman may walk free within weeks. The Court Martial Appeal Court this morning sentenced Blackman to seven years for the manslaughter of a Taliban fighter. Appeal...
View ArticleKen: Nazi Policy Had Effect of Supporting Zionism
Ken Livingstone has published his defence as he prepares to face Labour’s disciplinary committee on Thursday. He says Nazi policy “had the effect of supporting Zionism” and condemns “Israel’s ethnic...
View ArticleLeavers Walk Out of Brexit Committee Over Benn’s Highly Partisan Report
Leave-supporting members of the Brexit select committee walked out of a meeting this morning after Hilary Benn produced a report they found highly partisan and overly pessimistic. Last Wednesday Benn...
View ArticleLegs-It’s Not Bigotry, It’s Popular Journalism
Bigotry was once perceived to be refusing people a job on the basis of their skin colour, not allowing women to go to university and jailing individuals because of whom they loved. Now the social...
View ArticleBad Atmosphere: Caroline Lucas Flies to Washington
Green Party leader Caroline Lucas flew in business class to Washington yesterday on a gasoline guzzling, CO2 spurting aeroplane which dumped almost a tonne of carbon into the atmosphere. A spokesman...
View ArticleMili-binned
Spotted by a co-conspirator round the back of the Department of Health this afternoon, a life-size cardboard cutout of a banana-wielding David Miliband dumped unceremoniously in a bin. If anyone would...
View ArticleHow Maggie Would Have Dealt With Legs-It
Shortly after Margaret Thatcher became PM, her press office issued guidance on how to deal with media stories about her appearance. Her spinners would have said legs-it was “trivial and unconnected...
View ArticleMay Signs Article 50 Letter
Happy Brexit day… UPDATE: Tim Barrow delivers the letter in Brussels: The letter that triggers #Article50 and the #Brexit countdown is being delivered by Sir Tim Barrow in Brussels...
View ArticleHammond: “Can’t Have Our Cake and Eat It” on Brexit
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View ArticleTelegraph Sacks 20 Subs, Hires Coulson
Yesterday the Telegraph told its staff they were planning to lay-off 20 sub-editors and farms out their work to Press Association. Today, it emerges the paper has hired Andy Coulson to do their PR....
View ArticleHS2 Don’t Deny They’re About to Can CH2M
HS2 is refusing to deny that they are about to scrap their scandal-hit £170 million contract with CH2M following Guido’s revelations of conflicts of interest. On a long day of spin yesterday, DfT and...
View ArticleEuropean Parliament Resolution Response Leaked
With the support of the leaders of the main integrationist blocs; Guy Verhofstadt (ALDE), Manfred Weber (PPE), Gianni Pitella (S&D), Philippe Lamberts/Ska Keller (Greens/EFA) and Danuta Hübner,...
View ArticlePMQs: Who’s Asking the Questions?
Oral Questions to the Prime Minister Q1 Danny Kinahan (South Antrim) If she will list her official engagements for Wednesday 29 March Q2 Bill Esterson (Sefton Central) Q3 Carolyn Harris (Swansea East)...
View ArticleArticle 50 Triggered
After nine months the UK has delivered. #Brexit — Donald Tusk (@eucopresident) March 29, 2017 The post Article 50 Triggered appeared first on Guido Fawkes.
View ArticleREAD: Article 50 Letter
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View Article£170 Million HS2 Contract Scrapped After Guido Pressure
Victory! HS2 has scrapped the scandal-hit £170 million contract awarded to CH2M following our repeated revelations of conflicts of interest. The announcement that CH2M will be withdrawing its bid...
View ArticlePMQs / Article 50 Double Bill
Jeremy Corbyn kicked off today’s PMQs by leveraging last Wednesday’s events to ask the PM for more police funding so they have “the necessary resources with which to do the job”. This makes perfect...
View ArticleCommons Report: Prosecute MPs Who Break Standards Rules
Lay members of the House of Commons Committee on Standards have recommended that MPs should face criminal prosecution if they break their code of conduct. MPs who flout the rules tend to get away with...
View ArticleHS2 Boss Resigns Following Contract Fiasco
HS2 has announced the departure of its Director-General following the £170 million cancelled contract debacle. David Prout, the civil servant who had overall responsibility for the entire project for...
View ArticleLabour NEC Members Plead For No Early Election
Last week Labour’s election campaign coordinators Andrew Gwynne and Ian Lavery delivered a presentation to the party’s NEC on their chances at the ballot box. With comical understatement the room was...
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